Clive Woodward 1 Quotes

#1. It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

David Hume

#2. He was on the edge of a cliff. And he wasn't jumping, he was diving, a huge swan dive, like those famous cliff-top divers in some exotic place he'd seen on television once. Only they landed safely, bodies cutting into seawater like knife blades.

And his dive was a killing one.

B.D. Roca

#3. Of course you will, Hodges thinks. You might think you know what you're risking, but you don't. When you're seventeen, the future is strictly theoretical.

Stephen King

#4. He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.

Mark Gatiss

#5. I'm thinking about becoming a farmer and a fisherman - a hunter of swimming plants.

Jarod Kintz

#6. Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.

Clive Woodward

#7. Utter truth is essential ... and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

Margaret Bourke-White

#8. Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

John Steinbeck

#9. Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Laura Nyro

#10. Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

Sidney Sheldon

#11. Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.

Clive Woodward

#12. 'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second ...

Clive Woodward

#13. You don't get lucky in sport.

Clive Woodward

#14. French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

Lafcadio Hearn

#15. Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team ... winning does not happen in straight lines.

Clive Woodward